Pawlenty’s been stumping for Romney, but Trump has too. (Or at least, tried to, before Mitt Romney bailed at the last possible minute from their joint mutual-humiliation-themed New York feast.) Pawlenty’s middle-class, evangelical bona fides make a fine counterpoint to Romney’s moneyed Mormonism, but Trump would also bring diversity to the ticket. For instance, did you know Trump is a direct descendant of the first Google image result for “tumor with teeth and hair”?

It is with the possibility of Trump’s vice presidency in mind that *Vanity Fair’*s Alex Beggs begun a deep archival dive, attempting to vet the man as Romney’s operatives are no doubt also doing. Unsurprisingly, Beggs found something remarkable: Trump and his then-wife Ivana, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, on a June 1988 subscription flier for Tina Brown’s Vanity Fair. But wait! In the past few years, Trump has criticized this magazine for using unflattering public-domain images of him. Is this a flip-flop? Can a man who once helped sell Vanity Fair but is now against it be trusted to lead?